Holloween II: Microsoft Plugs Linux
http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html is a more extensive, (positively glowing) freshly smuggled (planted?) internal analysis of Linux by Microsoft. 103k, but definitely worth reading. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
If you liked Eric's halloween.html, you'll this one too -- chock full of hilarious Microsoft misunderstandings about Linux.
http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html is a more extensive... internal analysis of Linux by Microsoft.
Naughty boy, Robert -- now you've made me get coffee all over my keyboard: "The GCC and PERL language compilers are often provided for free with all versions of Linux... By the standards of the ... developer accustomed to VB [Visual Basic], these tools are incredibly primitive." ROTFL! This is obviously a hitherto unknown meaning for the word "primitive". OTOH, Vinod and Josh summarise things pretty well. Well worth reading (but read halloween.html first).
I thought the name Vinod Vallopillil was familiar as of someone who was on cpunks for a while, in 1995. If my memory serves me well, I think it was him who for a while he had this idea of putting together some learning lectures/sessions locally on economics. I expressed interest, but then he left for school again (he was an intern at MS at the time). I checked the archives for his name, and found some of his posts on "credit card conventional wisdom". This is what was on his sig in a 1995: LibertarianismTelecommunicationsFreeMarketEnvi ronmentalismTechnologyCryptographyElectronicCa shInteractiveTelevisionEconomicsPhilosophyDigi talPrivacyAnarchoCapitalismRuggedIndividualism .. Blanc
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